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Depending on your hemisphere, it's the first day of spring … or fall. Either way, yay! Many exoplanets not only may not have seasons, they may be tidally locked, so the same side always faces the star, like the Moon to Earth. It's always everlasting day or never-ending night.
#NASAExoplanets


The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are. "Adults over 40 perceive themselves to be, on average, about 20 percent younger than their actual age." kottke.org/23/03/the-puzzling-…
in reply to kottke.org

Definitely true for me, too. And, as you say here, I definitely see myself as closer to the millennial generation than Gen X, though this may have to do with the economic/social situation in which I find myself.


Yes it is and it’s so very sad to see some of the bigger lot now also just chasing Google for clicks.

Even just searching Steam Deck on Google constantly brings up spam blogs.

I will continue doing this as long as people want it 🫡

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It's not just SEO, it's fucking everywhere. Before I started purging them, my Facebook feed was absolutely clogged with Ranker links. I still see them every once in a while! How many Facebook pages does Ranker even own?!


Previously, it was uncertain how many deaths linked to PM2.5 were associated with dust.

According to the team’s estimates, 22 percent of the premature deaths associated with PM2.5 were due to dust—much of this in a “dust belt” that spans from West Africa to East Asia.
#NASAEarth



"Apollo, Pegasus, and the Muses" by Giuseppe Antonio Fabbrini (1777).

Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another link: wga.hu/html_m/f/fabbrini/poggi…



Windblown dust and human-caused particle pollution called PM2.5 likely contributed to 2.89 million premature deaths in 2019, according to research led by @nasagoddard scientists.

go.nasa.gov/3Z0lr5x
#NASAEarth



Linux Kernel Broke A Feature NOBODY Uses! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/f-lpqCpk0eA


If you’re in the northern hemisphere, this is an ideal time of year to spot cosmic objects from the Messier Catalog in the night sky – like the sparkling star cluster M7, seen in this new Hubble image!

M7 contains about 80 stars, loosely bound by gravity: go.nasa.gov/40mSIcq
#Hubble

in reply to NASA

do these globular clusters orbit around each other, or is there likely to be a black hole at the centre?


These two stars are on their own adventure!
One collapsed with such force that it was ejected from its galaxy, dragging its binary star companion out with it.
#MondayMotivation: It's all about the journey.
go.nasa.gov/2HI43y9
#NASAExoplanets




Meteorite fragment (not labelled/numbered) that was found in Hammadah al Hambra, Libya.

Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteorite



Tomorrow we've got something special for you!

Tune in for a thrilling announcement during our live stream at 3 PM (CET). You don't want to miss it!

nextcloud.com/livestream/

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in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

CEST? How do you calculate that since summer time only starts next weekend?
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

I could not make it (neither CEST nor CET …) - but I cannot find anything about the content of the event and now I am curious …


Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet finally reveals the truth: Amélie was a KGB spy! "Did no one ever wonder how a young waitress afforded such sophisticated decoration for a flat in Montmartre, one of Paris's most expensive districts?" kottke.org/23/03/amelie-was-ac…
in reply to kottke.org

the english subtitles for the credits are *almost* a highlight of the whole thing! "re-writering" .... hahahaha.


Ready to take control of your digital life? Move from iCloud to Nextcloud today! ✨

Discover how easy it is to make the switch to our open source cloud in this article from opensource.com.

opensource.com/article/23/3/sw…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Unfortunately, I had to move in the other direction since Apple added support for end-to-end encryption while Nextcloud put the development of the previously marketed, but never built, end-to-end encryption features on hold.

github.com/nextcloud/end_to_en…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

instead of entering so many things manually, why not just describe the option to download a configuration profile for CardDAV and CalDAV? In the website:
Settings->Mobile&Desktop->Download configuration profile for macOS and iOS


Characterization and simulation of metagenomic nanopore sequencing data with Meta-NanoSim

academic.oup.com/gigascience/a…

#metagenomics



Antisemitic tweets have more than doubled on Twitter since Elon Musk took over, a new study finds.

Asked for comment, Musk's press department auto-responded with a poop emoji. washingtonpost.com/politics/20…



Longer days are on the horizon! ☀️ 🌸

The March equinox marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It's also a time when the length of day and night are nearly equal.

Learn more: go.nasa.gov/40hcGVO
#NASAEarth



Today is the equinox, when the Sun is directly over the equator. Did you know other planets have seasons and equinoxes, too? On Saturn, they happen only once about every 15 Earth years. This view of an equinox in 2009 came from our Cassini spacecraft. solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources…
#NASASolarSystem


Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss



📆20 March 2023

Today! @JAlanBird presents: “How Standards Help Us All Get Along in the New Playground of Big Data” at Industry of Things World USA

w3.org/blog/talks/event/how-st…



From 12/21: I spoke with Harmit Malik on the #EMBOPodcast about how he got started, mobile genetic elements, genomic defences, and (with @tlemberger) preprints.

"Just like many other important transitions in life, I think my transition from chemical engineering to biology was chaperoned by a fantastic mentor.
(...)
He made even dry topics seem very interesting - but when he was teaching about the Lac operon and the basic fundamentals of molecular biology I was completely transfixed. It became something that I felt I could not pass up the opportunity to see if this is something I could spend the rest of my career on."

embo.org/podcasts/the-importan…



"Panspermia proposes that microscopic lifeforms which can survive the effects of space can become trapped in debris ejected into space after collisions between planets and small Solar System bodies that harbor life."

Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



2023 anti-trans bills tracker. "We track legislation that seeks to block trans people from receiving basic healthcare, education, legal recognition, and the right to publicly exist." translegislation.com/
in reply to kottke.org

how about sharing some probabilities or something. None of the introduced legislation proposed in MN are going to pass.


🌸 Ok, bloomer: Spring is here. The March equinox marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. During equinox, the Sun shines on the equator with nearly equal amounts of day & night: go.nasa.gov/40hcGVO
#NASA
#NASA


Part 3 of the #SC23 Women's History Month series is here! Celebrating the role of the #RSE in #HPC, Sheri Voelz Mickleson and Dr. Emily Kahl are transforming code for the better: buff.ly/3Z6LKH7
#WHM2023
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"A Greek Philosopher and His Disciples," by Antonio Zucchi (1767).

Antonio Zucchi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



Tomorrow we've got something special for you!
Tune in for a thrilling announcement during our live stream at 3 PM (CEST). You don't want to miss it! nextcloud.com/livestream/


What's the deal with Ozempic, the "breakthrough" diabetes & weight-Loss drug? It's helpful if you're dealing with chronic obesity or diabetes but if not, "it might function more like an injectable eating disorder". kottke.org/23/03/ozempic-break…


"Astronomical spectroscope from Norman Lockyer Observatory, brass, with train of seven prisms. Thought to be the one made by John Browning, London for Norman Lockyer who first used it to view Solar Prominences [chromosphere] outside a solar eclipse."

Science Museum Group, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 via Norman Lockyer’s seven-prism spectroscope. 1987-1162/1 Science Museum Group Collection Online. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.…



This is exactly what 🐦amazon wants.

A world where they become the only library of digital books—free to exploit authors and censor at will.

Tell publishers to stop playing into Big Tech's hands: battleforlibraries.com/

Read more: wsj.com/articles/online-books-…



America's Test Kitchen: you can use your SodaStream to double the life of your salad greens. Carbon dioxide "slows the respiration process of the greens and in turn slows the process of ripening and wilting". americastestkitchen.com/cooksi…


Please don't tag me in these weird trending account, or popular account etc things. I'll just mute you, it's just notification spam when people start replying with everyone tagged.

Please no.



Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne has a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/girl… #IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

There's gonna be a game? Interesting

I should probably catch up on the webcomic, I haven't looked at it at all this year



Developer of Deadnaut: Signal Lost requests Linux testers gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/deve… #IndieGame #Linux #Unity
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

oh wow - it looks so cool,
unfortunately I don't have the time for beta testing :/.

But it's on my wishlist now.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Looks somewhat reminiscent of Duskers, although somewhat more graphical and faster-paced.
But I think I prefer Dusker's atmosphere and minimalism (it was enough to inspire scenes in one of my books, after all).



Everything Is Temporary. One man stands alone against the flow of time. twitter.com/joepease/status/16…


Dee O’Hara (seen here with the Apollo 14 backup crew in 1971) was NASA’s first aerospace nurse, caring for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts. Her career helped define the occupation of space nursing.

Read her oral history: go.nasa.gov/3mMjbkY
#WomensHistoryMonth
#NASAhistory



This is a neat project: software that makes subtle changes to artwork that renders it "unreadable" to #AI image training.

twitter.com/kortizart/status/1…

#AI


GOG Spring Sale is live with more free games gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/gog-…

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